I had a dream recently, by which I mean last Sunday morning. It might well rank within my top 5 most surreal dreams in memory.

In it, I found out that Lindsey Graham had died on August 28, and was due to be replaced. At first, I thought ‘Oh, another Republican’. However, the Governor of South Carolina was to appoint a replacement, and the Governor was an Independent named Joseph ‘J^(24)’ Stevens, who leaned left.

Yes, that was his name. Why, you may ask? Because his torso was a 1 metre radius 24-spoke wheel angled so its disc was perpendicular to his standing body. It was also made of steel and painted black. No, it wasn’t a prosthetic; he was just born that way.

Anyway, the dream later morphed into him visiting a local high school to debunk flat-earther claims that the earth’s rotational speed would fling everyone off. He did this by inviting students to stand on the edge of the wheel, which he had now expanded out to a 2000 km radius (somehow he was still talking normally).

He then slowly began rotating it until it was spinning at 200 m/s. Air resistance clearly played no factor here, since the students stayed on the wheel, thus proving that it isn’t rotational speed that throws things off, but the rate of rotation (which Earth does slowly). Thus, the flat-earthers were debunked.

All in all, quite a weird dream, yet one that actually happened.